Ribbed knitted fabric.



No. 832,506. A PATENTED 00112, 1906 R. W. SCOTT.

.RIBBED KNITTED FABRC.

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z (IJQLLLL/gg @Ma /wf i y UN ITEI) STATES vI J'AIEIWI' OFFICE. ROBERT WQsooTT, E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR .oP' ONE-HALE To Louis N. n. WILLIAMS, or oeroNTz,v PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oef. 2, 190e. l

:o by brushing or igging.

The object o my present invention is to so knit Such a fabric that the ileecing-loops Will be of a uniform character and firmly united to the knitted web and ay be disposed closely together, so that ift ey are brushed they will form a mat or fieece fully and closely coveringthe surface ofthe knitted web.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an exaggerated view of a plece of 2o knitted fabric constructed in, accordance with my invention, vand Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views illustrating other embodiments of my invention. I

In all of .the views of the drawin s, (L repre- 5 sents the Wales of one face of the abrio, and

b those of the other face of the same. For

I instance, the wales c may be those formed by the' dial-needles of the-Iib-knitting machine,

and the Wales @may be those formed by the 3o cylinder-needles of the machine, or the reversemay be true. For convenience, however, we may regard the Wales-a as the dialneedle wales andthe Wales b as the cylinderneedle wales;

' 3,5 In Fig. 1 I have shown lfour courses of stitches 1, 2, 3, and 4, the courses 1, 3, and 4 being knitting courses and the course 2 being a combined knitting and iieecing coursethat is to say, the yarn forms stitches in the wales b and fioats across the faces of the wales @,Uso as to form upon one face of the web projecting surface loops which can be brushed or gigged to form a fieece. By reason of this method of knitting the loops which are to be fleeced are firmly bound to the knitted web,

the yarn of which they are composed being, infact,part ofsaid web. Hence the loops cannot be ulled out or lengthened at the .exense of adjoining loops, if used-in the un- 5o rushed state, or by the action of the brushes,

1f they are'brushed, and the loops, or the fleece .which results from the brushing of the 'A Fig. 3.

the entire web. If a iieecing course alternates with each knitting course in the web, 5,5.

the fleecingloops will be disposed so' closely. together over the'surface of thefweb that the` iieec'e willfully and closely cover said surface without such excessive brushing of the yarn as to materially interfere with the integrity ofk the same. Where such a close disposition of the iieecing-loops is not desired, however, the fieecing course need not alternate with each knitting course, or the yarn which forms the lieccing course of the web may pass alternately over and under the Wales c, as shown in Fig. 2, and where a longer iioat of the eecingyarn is desired the same may form stitches yonly in alternate wales I), as shown in the yarn of the fleecinglcourse 2 constitutes an integral portion of t e knitted Web-that V1s to say, it is intermeshed with stitches of the courses l and 3 in some or all of the wales b and cannot vbe removed without destroying 7 5 the integrity of these wales.

I have shown my invention as embodied in a fabric in which single wales of one face alternate regularly with single wales of the other face, this fabric being what is known as 8o a one-and-one. rib but it will be evident that my invention is also applicable to twoand-one ribs, tWo-and-two rlbs, or other types of ribbed fabric.

The various fabrics which Iy have shown and described can be readily produced upon 1 a machine such as that forming the subject of a separate ap lication for patent which I have led, Serial) guishes it froml the machine of my; previous patent, No. 577,789, dated Februarfss, 1897, which was supplied With a weft-yarn guide or guides in'addition to the knitting-yarn guide 95 or guides.

In producing course 2 of the fabric shown` in Fig. l all of the dial-needles will -be projected, so that Vthe yarn may be fed behind the same, and all of the cylinder-needles will. be projected, so as to receive the yarn and draw stitches of the same, While in producingV I course 2 of the fabricshown in Fig. 2, alternate dial-needles only will be projected, and

same, present a uniform surface throughout i,

In all of the fabrics shown, however, 7o

NQ. 249,270, Said machine -V being-capable of use either with a single or a 9o -multiple yarn guide, a feature which distin- Ido Seh

in producing @ourse 2 of the fabric shown in.

Fig. 3 alll of the dial-needles will be rejected, but `alternate cylinder-needles on y will be eeused toy engage and draw stitches of the yarn.

In a single-feed-Inachne pro er change of the needle-Cams will be eieete between the knittin of alternate courses; but in a multiple-fe maohne this will not be necessary. {.Heving thus described my inventior1,-I claim and desire'to secure by Letters Pat- -ent'- 1 `1'.` A ribbedx knitted' fbric havingl courses .A 'whieiorm arts of" Wales of one face of the abrie, and 'oet in frantoi' walesof'the other fue ofthe fabric.

2. A ribbed knitted fabric having; courses which form parte of wales of one fece ofthe fabric, and loet in lr'ront of eacho the Wales of the other face of the frbric.

3. A ribbed knitted fabric having courses which form parts of each` of the Wales of one face of the fabric, amd oat'in iront of Wales of the other face of the fabric. n

4. A ribbed knitted fabric having courses which form erts of each of the wales of one face of the ebrio, and ioat in Jronft of each of the Wales of the other face ofthe fabric.

In testimony whereof I have signed my `,neme to this specification in .the presence of two subscribing. Witnesses.

4 Roe-mirr- W.. seorr; X/Vtgnessneez; WILLIAM F. BEAIPON,

WALTER Guieu'. 

